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18 June 1960 (USA) moreTagline:
Jump on! Hang on! Here comes the avenging Hannibal and his crazed elephant army! morePlot:
After making his historic crossing of the Alps with elephants transporting supplies and troops, Hannibal marches on Rome in a war of revenge... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Good Film, good acting. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Victor Mature | ... | Hannibal |
 | Gabriele Ferzetti | ... | Fabius Maximus |
| Rita Gam | ... | Sylvia |
| Milly Vitale | ... | Danila |
| Rik Battaglia | ... | Hasdrubal |
| Franco Silva | ... | Maharbal |
| Terence Hill | ... | Quintilius (as Mario Girotti) |
| Mirko Ellis | ... | Mago |
| Andrea Aureli | ... | Gajus Terentius Varro |
| Andrea Fantasia | ... | Konsul Paulus Emilius |
| Renzo Cesana | (as Renato Cesana) | |
| Bud Spencer | ... | Rutario (as Carlo Pedersoli) |
| Pina Bottin | ||
| Remo De Angelis | ||
| Piero Mitri |
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Hannibal (USA)Hannibal (Austria) (West Germany) [de]
Aníbal (Spain) [es]
Aníbal E Os Elefantes (Portugal) (original subtitled version) [pt]
Annibal (France) [fr]
Annivas (Greece) [el]
Hannibal (Finland) [fi]
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This film was good, it followed the series of battles from 218 to 216 BC which culminated in Hannibal's victorious, heavy defeat of the biggest ever assembled Roman Army of 80,000 (Battle of Cannae).
This film even mentions the siege of Saguntum (Rome's Ally in Spain) which brought on the second Punic War when the Carthaginian senate refused to surrender Hannibal Barca to them.
After briefly showing the events of the Battle of Trebia (December 218BC) and the battle of Lake Trasimene (June 217BC) there are political scenes involving both the Carthaginians and the Romans as Fabius Maximus tries to persuade the Roman senate not to engage Hannibal in open battle, rather skirmish and harass.
Victor Mature played Hannibal well, but the only element which was wrong with this film was that it did not appear to command the same budget available for it's production as The 300 Spartans or Spartacus (in particular had) so the battle of Cannae, Hannibal's finest hour (or hours) did not come across as the battle would have done.
The reason for this is that they would have needed to assemble AT LEAST 130,000 extras in order to portray the events at Cannae. However, they still managed to assemble a lot of extras for the battle scene, just not nearly as much as 130,000 Aside from this minor flaw, I LOVED IT.